<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, L. V. Lammert <<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net">lvl@omnitec.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Looking to setup a simple admin interface for scheduling, .. there are a<br>
> few X based tools (e.g. Visual Cron), .. but I would really like to avoid<br>
> comlicating matters with an X session on remote machines.<br>
><br>
> A secondary goal is to setup management of cron tasks on a number of<br>
> remote machines.<br>
><br>
> Anyone ever seen such a tool?<br>
<br>
</div>"crontab -e" will bring up a text editor with the current crontab and<br>
allow you to edit it. Read "man 5 crontab" for details on the format.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br><br>The way I started out was to use crontab -e and put a few commented examples into the document for reference. I could then copy and paste one of the examples and modify it to my tastes.<br>
<br>The crontab -e honours the user's default editor (nano, vi, emacs) so they don't have to learn a new tool, they just use the one they're used to. <br><br>This rewards the users for getting comfortable with an editor and they can use this same tool for managing postfix or samba or ldap or whatever.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>